Language and Literature

There will not be any kind of literature if there is not a language. That is a language which creates literature and with its features helps it to be more interesting. Richard Eyre; English director (in Kermode 2001: 4) says, “The life of the plays is in the language”. It will become more powerful if more structures of linguistics are applied. For instance, there is someone who would like to be in a situation of criminal investigation, but it is impossible for him to inter such a place. He might be able to get a quite clear picture, by the help of linguistic features, for what he dreams about through following a piece of literature. Being familiarized with linguistics would let people to understand literature in a better way. They would also think about it in a more critical way and engage to the depth of the meaning.

Some people would argue that the only thing would be talked about is the sense of literature which comes from the heart of a poet, novelist or playwright. They might say it is not very important to analyze linguistic aspects in a piece of work. Toolan (2003) claims that sentences are making a context just like a house which should be made of bricks, posts, beams and so on. But that is not all the work; it is not possible to build a house by bringing that stuff only. They should be bounded in a variety of ways. That is the same situation in a text; sentences should be linked together in a linguistic way. This sentence construction should be in a system that would lead audience or readers to be more attracted. Using various sentence structures, for example, avoids them from being uninterested. Almost everyone wants to see something different. Repetition is often not desired by human beings. Leech and Short (200...

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...t targets to help those who are interested in literature to be more critical and to have a good understanding for it, to obtain what they want through following it.

References:

• Hebron, M. (2004). Mastering the Language of Literature. Hampshire: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN.

• Kermode, F. (2001). Shakespeare's Language. London: Penguin Books, p. 4.

• Leech, G. and Short, M. (2007). Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose. (2nd edn.). Harlow: Longman.

• Short, M. (1996). Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose. Harlow: Longman.

• Simpson, P. (1997). Language through Literature: An Introduction. London: Routledge.

• Toolan, M. (2003). Language in Litterature (2nd edn.). London: Hodder Headline Group.

• Traugott, E. C. and Pratt, M. L. (1980). Linguistics for Students of Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.